The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-23 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAIL tip AMERICA. (From the Times Correspoidort.) NEW YORK, March 9. The spring campaign is an acknowledged fiasco, and were people not so exceedingly busy in specu lating in gold and stocks, would excite, so far as its history is yet known, the indignant reprobation of every honest and sensible man in the country. Gen. Kilpatrick, misled by the reports of dishonest or over sanguine deserters and escaped prisoners from Richmond, took it into his head that he would capture that city by a cavalry coup de main and make his name illustrious for evermore. He laid a wager at heavy odds with another cavalry officer, Gen. Pleasanton, that he would do it within a fort night, and though opposed by every real soldier to whom he submitted his notion, obtained, it would appear, the sanction of the President to try what he could do, with the best wishes of that amiable bat most unmilitary Commander-in-Chief that he might "go in and win." He went in accordingly ; committed a large amount of ruthless and wanton destruction in the rear of Gen. Lee's army, broke down bridges, burnt corn mills and factories, fright ened the women and children and the impotent or bedridden old men in all his line of march ; reached the suburbs of Richmond, threw a few harmless shells into the city, and fearing the capture of his whole command of 6,000 horsemen—which would have been the befitting punishment for his foolhardy experiment—rode out of the enemy's liaes into those of Gen. Butler, with the loss of four colonels and 500 soldiers—admitted, but which time, perhaps, will show to have been treble that number. He onlyescaped by sheer good luck, having accomplished nothing by his raid but the exasperation of the Southern people, and the embitterment of all pre viously existing bad feeling. Nor has Gen. Sher man's more magnificent raid across the State of Mis sissippi been attended with happier results. The ut most mystery is preserved with respect to him ; but not all the arts and efforts of the Government to con ceal the unwelcome truth can prevent the diffusion of unfavourable reports, to the effect that, less for tunate than General Kilpatrick, he has been defeated in a pitched battle with tremendous loss, and that his army has been virtually annihilated. The division that marched from Ciattanooga under Gen. Thomas as far as Funnel-hill, on the road to Dalton, has, if rumour be not entirely untrustworthy, been forced to retrace its steps, and take refuge within its ori ginal intrenchments ; so that nothing remains of all the great plans of the opening campaign but the presence of Admiral Farragut before the outer de fences of Mobile, to repeat, perhaps, after a suffi cient lapse of time, the abortive operations of Ad miral Dahlgren before Charleston. Under the in fluence of these simultaneous failures and shortcom ings the gold market has been considerably disturbed and the precious metal yesterday ranked above greenbacks at the rate of 63'4 per cent., and has this morning gone up as high as 68, with the prospect of a still further rise if Mr. Chase does not " bear" the market by selling a few millions of the reserves in the Treasury which he holds at his disposal. None of the military heroes whom the war has produced has enjoyed a very long lease of popu larity. Their fame and favour have been as evanescent aslthe rainbow, and as unsubstantial as the foam upon the water. One General alone remains with a reputation which nothing seems capable of shaking; and that is M'Clellan. All the rest have disappeared into the outer darkness, never more to emerge into the light of the people's love. The present favourite is General Grant, the recently appointed Commander-in-Chief under Mr. Lincoln, and the newest new broom that is expected to sweep everything before it. The General arrived at Washington yesterday, and, while quietly eating his dinner at that uncomfortable caravanseri known as Willard's Hotel, was recognised by a too inquisitive lieutenant, and compelled to get up and show himself to the 500 or 600 men and women who were all feeding together. The General made the best of the difficnity, suffered an immense amount of handshaking, and finally beat a retreat without finishing his repast. In the even ing he presented himself before the President at his customary public reception, when the two remark able men met for the first time, and surveyed each other, it is to be presumed, with mutual curiosity. Tee spectacle that presents itself to the General at Washington, if he study it attentively, is not of a nature to impress him strongly with the faith that his own popularity will endure much longer than that of his predecessors. He will find a divided Cabinet, as well as a divided people, and in the upper ranks of the army, which he is about to direct, an cmount of profeesional jealousy and heart-burning of the vary worst augury for its discipline and efficiency. Every captain thinks himself fit to be a brigadier, every brigadier fit to be a major-general, and every major-general fit to be President. Everybody is in the way of every body else ; and self-seeking is the vice and bane and misery of every one above the rank of corporal. General Meade in winning the battle of Gettysburg made himself a host of enemies, and is accused by some of his subordinate bt igediers, who thick them • selves better soldiers than he, of giving the order to retreat in the very heat of the contest—of having, in fact, lost the battle, as far as his skill or general ship was concerned, and of having declared what hundreds of thousands who are not generals do not hesitate to avow, that the conquest of the South is impossible. For these offences—charged against him by persons whose business was to obey his orders and not to criticize them—General Meade has been examined before a Congressional commit tee, to learn what answer he has to make, and, unless supported by General Grant, will probably be superseded by some other officer who has no friendship for General M'Ciellan and no admiration of the military genius of the hero of Antietam. The truth is that Meade has served his turn ; his poli tics, though he seldom avows and never thrusts them forward, are distasteful to the ruling faction ; and his history, if General Grant will read it as attentively as be should along with that of every other General who has borne a prominent part in the war, will give him reason to walk warily in his new position, and not trust too confidently in the continued favour either of the President, the Cabinet or the people. New York, both city and State, were yesterday called upon to decide, through the agency of the ballot box, the question whether soldiers cease to be civilians while they are in the field. One of the greatest of the many perils that liberty is doomed to encounter during the progress of the war and the Convulsions that may attend the final triumphs of the principle of secession, is the exercise by the mili tary in the camp of the right of voting. By the constitution of nearly all the States, this right is practically denied by the provision which enacts that the voter shall personally record his vote at the appointed polling place of his electoral district. In the case of an army in the field this is impossi ble ; and the soldier is temporarily, and, many think, rightly deprived of the suffrage accorded to ail other classes of the community. Were the Ame xicaus of this day as jealous of their liberties as their British ancestors, they would not only not seek to interfere with the existing practice, but would strenuously oppos e every c h ange w hi c h should even have a tendency to allow the soldiers to 'vote in a body under the direction of their officers. An a tt e mpt was made last year in New York, New Jersey, reensylvanla, and other States to bring about the desired innovation by means of an Act of the Legislature. In New York a measure was passed by both houses, but was vetoed by Gov. Seymour the ground that a change of such magnitude effected by a vote of t h e w h o l e could only be lega ll y people calling for an amendment of the Constitution. Yesterday was appointed throughout the State :for putting the vote on this single question. The republican party very generally supported the change, and with their principles they very naturally did so; fur to give the soldiers in the camp such a privilege is a step towards the military despotism to which, under the impulse of their love of centralisation, they are so rapidly driving the country. Besides, such a means of taking the vote is an attack on the principles of State rights. which 'they have resolved to destroy, and on that ground islone would have been entitled to their support. .11.0 Democratic party generally looked with digit" vo , LI: on she scheme. The irstaict of liberty was alarmed; but as Gen. NliClellan, the favourite can didate for the Presidency, would undoubedly re ceive the all but unanimous vote of the soldiery of the army of the Potomac, and a large portion of .hat of the army of the Cumberland, whey were in- duced in an evil hour to waive their opposition and join with the Republicans in the silly cry that it would be ungrateful to deprive American citizens of the suffrage, merely because they were doing military duty at the cannon's mouth. The vote both in the State and the city was lighter than usual, but was about two to one as far as the numbers have yet been made up in favour of the proposition. A little incident that occurred a fortnight ago in the army of Gen. Meade may serve to show how in juriously the system may be made to work both against the soldier and the public. A young Irish man, son of a naturalised American, who had en listed for the bounty money, declared in camp, in he hearing of an officer, that if the soldiers were allowed to vote in the Presidential election he would vote against Mr. Lincoln, and that if he had a thou sand votes they should all be given the same way. For this breach of discipline he was placed under arrest, and at the last accounts was still in cap tivity without prospect of release. This is not liberty for the soldier ; will it be liberty for the people ? Time will show—and perhaps more speedily than the Americans imagine. There are, it appears, some things which are too bad even for General Butler. Under his command .n the new disirict to which he has been appointed ,a a certain Brigadier-General Wild, who two months ago distinguished himself at the head of a negro regiment in a raid which he undertook to make through a defenceless portion of the State of North Carolina, Wild, envious perhaps of the great re putation of his chief, not acquired in the battle field, but in the persecution of women and non combatants, looked around for a victim on whom he could practise in a similar manner. He found one in the person of the Rev. S. H. Wingfield, o, Portsmouth, an Episcopalian clergyman, who wo reported to be a Secessionist and a disseminator of traitorous dogmas. Without giving Mr. Wingfield warning of his danger, or any opportunity to defend himself against a charge which might have been grossly exaggerated, or altogether unfounded, the brigadier issued a special order (No. 44) to meet he case. In this he declared his belief that " a wholesome example was necessary for the benefit of Mr. Wingfield in particular, and the class of the community which he represents in general, to teach men of education and ability that they could not be allowed to use the talents God had given them for the purpose of stirring up strife against the Govern. ment of the United States." He therefore ordered the arrest of this gentleman of education and ability, and turned him over to a provost-marshal to be kept to hard labour for three months in cleaning the streets of Norfolk and Portsmouth, " thus," as he graciously added, " employing his time for the bene fit of the Government he has abused, and atoning in a small way for his disloyalty and treason." But the bolts of Jove must not be seized by inferior hands, and the novice in demonology must not be allowed to use the magic books of the master, lest evil should come of his temerity. General Butler, if not scandalised, was offended at the act of his subordinate, and, in a highly characteristic order, dated five days subsequently to the arrest of Mr. Wingfield, released that gentleman from the de grading portion of Gen.Wild's sentence and remitted him to military confinement—" not," said the aw ful and implacable Butler, " because the punish- ment is unjust, but because ifs nature may be sup posed to reflect upon the Christian Church, which, by his connexion with it, has already been too much disgraced." Thus Butler gained a double triumph. He snubbed a too presumptuous subordinate, and launched a second insult at the head of a gentleman who is unable, even if he were willing, to retaliate. If there were any esprit de corps among clergymen, irrespective of their creeds, it might be worth the while of the Northern preachers to raise their voices against the tyranny of which General Butler has set the example. The day may come when military ruffians may wield all the power of the North, when major-generals and brigadiers may, in Mr. Lincoln's phrase, " run the churches," and not only decide what is loyalty in the pulpit, but what is " truth" and what is " Christianity." There may be in the armies of the United States many embryo heroes who do not believe in "Beecher," who have no faith in " Cheever," who have no reverence for " Tyng and if the turn of the revolutionary wheel should invest any one of them with supreme authority in New York, it might be awful to reflect to what hard ships, indignities, and persecutions these now shining lights of the loyal churches might be exposed it what is now loyalty should receive another epithe t from the mouths of men in power. But the Northern pulpit is silent on the subject. In the eyes of halt the clergy of New England andlNew York, Butler is a saint and a hero—a pillar of orthodoxy as well as of loyalty—who " runs the churches" for the glory of Clod, the support of the national life and the honour of the flag. Is this the spirit of the Puritan Fathers ? Or is it a new spirit altogether, the existence of which is incompatible with civil or religious liberty ? The Union League of this city, an association composed principally of war contractors, jobbers, political clergymen, and other devoted adherents of the Administration, organised on Saturday last o novel spectacle for the amusement of the multi tude. Regiments of white men going to or return ing from Southern battlefields have long ceased to attract notice. They pass up or down Broadway without exciting even the cheap compliment of a cheer or the flutter of a pocket handkerchief. It seems, however, to have struck the mind of some more than usually imaginative member of the League that if white heroes could no longer move the crowd to sympathy or rapture, black heroes might. The idea took root and flourished. The fair ladies who, though not members of the League, were mothers, wives, sisters, or sweethearts of those who were, took up the notion with avidity, and wrought with their own delicate hands a silken banner to be presented to the 20th Regiment of New York Volunteers, a black regiment, com manded by white officers. The flag was publicly presented to them in their square on Saturday; a " spread eagle" address was read, and a " spread eagle" speech was made in presence of a large mul titude; the white Colonel returned a " spread eagle" reply on behalf of his black fellow-soldiers ; the officers, all white men, having been regaled inside, at the Everett-house, and the rank and file having been regaled on less sumptuous and luxu rious fare outside in the open square, marched down Broadway, amid the vociferous cheers of a great multitude of spectators. The black soldiers looked very fine fellows. They were dressed in bran new uniforms, marched jauntily along, with their new banner fluttering in the sunshine, and seemed a thousandfold more delighted with themselves and with their reception than white soldiers would have bee❑ under similar or any circumstances. A year ago such a spectacle in New York would have bee❑ a perilous experiment on the temper of the people ; and, if attempted, would have led to serious breaches of the peace. It may be asked if the prin ciples of those who acknowledge the negro as a man and a brother, and as a person as fully entitled as themselves to all the political rights and social privileges that belong to honest manhood, have made such progress in the interval as to have effaced the ancient antipathies and prejudices of race, and produced that moral sympathy between white and black which is hereafter to produce that physical " miscegenation" to;which the advanced humanita• rians of this continent look forward as the perfec tion of our species ? The answer is, decidedly not. The crowd which cheered the negro soldiers cheered in derision. They looked upon every black recruit as a satisfactory reason for the non-employment of a'wbite conscript. " The greater the number of black men who fight in this war, the smaller the number of white men who will be required." " Let the niggers go—and if they never come back, so much the better." " Black food for powder is better than white." Such, without the profanity and ob scenity with which they were mingled, are but a few specimens of the comments of the crowd which witnessed the procession, though, like the beri banded and garlanded bulls of ancient Greek sacri fices, the joyous negroes knew nothing of the fate to which they were so coolly consigned. THE SHEFFIELD CALAMITY. SHEFFIELD, March 22, The work of clearing away the mud and filth left by the flood is being rapidly pushed forward, and the streets of the town are now beginning to assume much of their ordinary appearance, except that fence walls and fallen houses are nut rebuilt. Disinfectants have been freely used, and with the best effect. The Sanitary Committee, composed of medical men, re ported yesterday evening as follows : " The committee have pleasure in reporting that from personal examination they are able to state that the work of cleansing the streets, cellars, back yards, courts, and lanes is rapidly proceeding; that the health of the town is in a satisfactory condition, and that there is every reason to con clude that the precautionary measures that have been and are being taken will have the effect of preventing disease." The search for bodies continues, and two or three are found daily, but there are yet more than 33 missing. The question of the liability of the 'Water Company for the damage is exciting great attention here. The solicitors appointed to act for the mill and other property owners have taken the opinion of eminent counsel. The opinion is that the company are unquestionably liable for all legal damage to the extent of their capital, but not beyond that. The estimates of damage are so large that many shareholders have feared the capital of the company (E 100,000) would not cover the damage, and that their private fortunes would be responsible. The opinion of counsel will therefore be a great relief to them on that point. More sober estimates give the damage at considerably less than £400,000 ; but only the roughest estimates can as yet possibly be made. The contribution of the Prince of Wales to the distress fund is £2OO. The Princess of Wales has contributed £5O, and the Duke of Cambridge £5O. M. A. Mille, the engineer in chief of bridges and cause ways to the French Government, has come over to examine and inspect the dam, and visited it to-day in company with Mr Rawlinson, the Government engineer, and Mr Beard more, an engineer sent down by the Government to assist Mr, Rawlinson. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE, NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—CAMBRIDGE, March 22. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice Crompton and a Special Jury.) THE EARL OF COVENTRY AND OTHERS V. WILLES. Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., and Mr. Buiwer were for the plain tiffs; and Mr. Keane, Q C., and Mr. Phear for the defen dant. This was an action of trespass brought by the plaintiffs, who are the stewards of the Jockey Club, against Mr. Vim. Willes, who is the sporting correspondent of the Morning . _ Post, writing under the nom de plume ot" Argus," for wit• fully trespassing on the part of Newmarket Heath, called " the Flat," after notice given him by the plaintiffs (owners) not to do so. The defendant pleaded three pleas : First, not guilty ; secondly, denial of the plaintiffs' right of possession ; and thirdly, that he committed the trespass complained of by the leave and licence of the plaintiffs. Mr. O'Malley stated the case to the jury, and then Mr. Charles Weatherby was called, and examined by Mr. Bulwer—l am secretary to the Jockey Club at New market, and have been so for twenty-eight years. Lord Coventry, Admiral Rous, and Mr. Alexander (the three plaintiffs) are members of the club. In 1663 the same three gentlemen were the stewards. I know that portion of the heath at Newmarket called " the Flat." Payments have been made by various persons in respect of occupation of " the Flat," I have known payments made by me for the stewards of the Jockey Club for rolling, levelling, and taking care of the ground. Such rolling and levelling was done by my direction, on the part of the plaintiffs as stewards. I know Mr. Chas. Bottom. In the intermediate times between the races the ground is I aken care of for trying purposes. Races are held twice in the spring, once in July, and three times in the autumn. The grass is also sometimes let for sheep-feed. The trainers make payments in respect of the use of the ground to me, on behalf of the stewards. Mr. Martin Starling is employed to look after the management of the Heath all the year round. He has labourers under him. He is employed end paid by the stewards. Mr. James Manning is also in the employment of the stewards. The feed has been let to Mr. Bottom, who is the occupier of the adjoining farm. It was partly let to him, for a short time, in 1863, but I forget the exact period. I gave direc tions to Starling that in certain places and at certain times Mr. Bottom might feed it. Mr. Bottom paid me, for the stewards, for such feed. There is also, on "the Fiat," a betting ring, to which persons are admitted by payment. Mr. Fuller Andrews, a servant of the stewards, has charge of that. He receives the money for the entrance fees, and pays it to me. There are two booths for refreshments, for which payments are made to me for the stewards. Autho- rity is exercised by the stewards by regulating on what side horses shall go, and on what side carriages, at the races. For all payments and receipts I account to the stewards. Carriages are obliged to go upon the racecourse by a new road. The posts at different parts of the heath are put up and repaired by the stewards. Posts and ropes arc tut up to keep the course while the races are being run. Move- able posts and rails are also put across the course at non racing times, to regulate the spots where the horses may exercise. That is also done by order of the stewards. Admi ral Rous and Mr. Alexander, two of the stewards, take an active part in the management of " the Flat." On October 29, 1862, I wrote a letter to defendant, forwarding a copy of a resolution passed that afternoon by the Jockey Club, re quiring him to make an apology for certain offensive expres sions used by him in a letter signed " Argus" in the Morn. ing Post of Oct. 20. I received Mr. Willes's reply, stating that he should be obliged by my pointing out the offensive expressions complained of, and stating that the proprietors of the Morning Post were fully prepared to justify in a court of law the expressions complained of by the Earl of Win chelsea and Mr. Hughes, and offering to send the name of his solicitor, to whom any process could be sent. On the same day I received a telegraphic message, giving the names of the solicitors cf the Morning Post. On Nov. 3d I wrote the defendant again, acquainting him that, not having made the required apology, he would be warned off the land of the club, and requesting him to acknowledge the receipt of a notice not to trespass which was enclosed. Mr. Willes, on the next day, acknowledged the receipt. I received a letter from the defendant on April, 20, 1863, stating that the re- marks complained of were penned by him solely as a public writer, with a desire to do his duty to the public, and no _ _ _ _ desire to give pain to any member of the Jockey Club. I showed that letter to the stewards at once. I did not send any answer. On the 22d I sent instructions to my solicitor, and afterwards received a second letter from Mr. Willes. Cross-examined by Mr. Keane, Q.C.—ln 1862, the Earl of Portsmouth, the Earl of Coventry, and the Hon. Admiral 11';113 were stewards. I was present at the meeting of the Jockey Club, at the rooms at Newmarket, at which the resolution of the 29th of October, 1862, was passed. All three of the plaintiffs were present at that meeting. The resolution was moved by Lord Winchelsea and seconded by Admiral Rolm It was not carried una nimously. Thirteen members voted for it, and seven against it. I have not got the names of the seven who voted against it. It had been previously moved by Lord Strad broke (the brother of Admiral Rotes) " that it was not expe dient to take notice of anonymous writers in public papers," but was lost by 12 to 10. It was H ell understood that the defendant was the author of the letter. Part of the letter was read to the meeting. At the meeting on Oct. 31, the three plaintiffs and 11 other members were present. There are about 80 members of the club altogether. There was a division on an amendment moved by Gen. Peel,M.P., that a special meeting of the club should be called to take into consideration the letter of Mr. Willes. That was seconded by Mr. Greville. It was loot by 11 to 6. The ori ginal resolution, proposing that Mr. Willes should be warned off the course, was moved by Lord Winchelsea and seconded by Lord Glasgow, and carried by 11 to 6, The defendant's letter was read to that meeting. My experience of the Jockey Club at Newmarket is considerable. Nobody has ever, to my knowledge, been warned off before for such a cause as this. There is the case of a gentleman who has been warned off for affronting a steward of the Jockey Club in the exe cution of his duty. The Jockey Club have given the stewards a general discretionary power to warn off the course. The races are advertised, and the owners of horses are invited to come and enter them. There are stands, which are used by the members only, and public stands. The public are never warned off, provided they go into the right places. Each of the plaintiffs has referred in my presence to the rules of the club as guiding their conduct as stewards. A great part of the ground upon which the horses are trained is not the freeho'd of the Jockey Club. My accounts with the stewards are laid before the members of the Jockey Club at the annual financial meeting in the Craven Meeting week, There is one new steward every year, each steward remait ing in office three years. The stewards said that Mr. Willes's letter of the 24th of April was not sufficient. I was not told to answer it. Lord Coventry told me that he had seen Mr. Willes on the Heath, and that he must not come. That was on the Tuesday. I understand now that it was ar ranged that Mr. Wines should commit a formal trespass on the Heath, in the presence of Mr. Kitchener's clerk. Re-examined by Mr. O'Malley—The defendant was not the owner of a horse, or a member of the Jockey Club. Richard Cole deposed— I delivered a letter to the defen dant personally on the 22d of April. It was from Messrs. Kitchener and Jean, stating that they had been instructed to proceed, and informing him that, if he persisted in going on the Heath, they should being a separate action in respect of each trespass, and apply for an injunction under the Common Law Procedure Act. The witness proceeded — I went on "the Flat" on the 23d of April, for the purpose of seeing if the defendant was there. The defendant rode up, and asked if my name was Cole. I said "Yes," and he said he was glad of it, as he had seen Mr. Kitchener, and he had arranged with him that I should be saved a journey to London, and that there should be no mistake as to his identity. I then served him with the notice. Mr. O'Malley briefly summed up the plaintiffs' case to the jury. It was admitted that the defendant had trespassed on the course for the express purpose of raising the question of right. With respect to the occupation of the land, the defendant had got enough facts to raise the point of law, if there were any, in a court of law hereafter. He was at a loss to understand what question there was for the jury. The action really was an undefended one. Mr. Justice Crompton summed up, and the jury found for the plaintiffs, damages ls. His lordship certified for tlag cote of the special jury. Tim StIN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1864. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—March 22, (Before Mr. Payne.) A SCENE IN COT, RT, Robert Griffiths, 24, cabinetmaker, was indicted for steal. ing six knives and six forks, a stock, a die, a plough-plane, and six irons, the property of Martin James Boon. Mr. J. P. Wood prosecuted ; Mr. Pater defended the prisoner. The prosecutor is an ironmonger and tool-dealer living at No. 45, St. John-square, and the prisoner rented a room at the back of his shop for six or seven months, and ho used to look after the shop while the prosecutor was out on business. During that time a quantity of tools were missed. The pri soner was suspected of stealing them, and George Ranger, police-constable 199 G, took him into custody, telling him he was charged with stealing a stock and die. He said at first he knew nothing about them and attempted to run out of the shop, but he was followed and taken to the station house, The policeman then went to the prisoner's house, and in a portfolio found 70 duplicates for tools, three of them relating to the tools then produced. The prisoner was asked how ho accounted for so many duplicates relating to tools, and he said some of them belonged to him, but the greater portion of them belonged to the prosecutor. During Mr. Pater's cross-examination of a witness, the foreman of the jury remarked he thought the learncu. coun sel had no right to insinuate that witness was hot speaking the truth. Mr. Pater said it would be better for the foreman not to get into collision with him, and insisted upon his right to cross-examine the witness with a view of eliciting the truth, and in his address to the jury with great emphasis exclaimed —" I thank God there is more than one juryman to deter mine whether the prisoner stole the property with which he is charged ; for if there was only one, and that one was the foreman, from what has transpired to-day, there is no doubt what the result would be." Mr. Payne said that was a very improper observation for Mr. Pater to make to the foreman of the jury, and if he went on in that strain he should consult Mr. Bodkin, the Assistant-Judge in the other court, as to what should be done. This sort of thing being continued, Mr. Payne left the court to consult Mr. Bodkin, and on his return he said—l have consulted the Assistant-Judge in reference to this matter; but it is his opinion that at this stage it would not be fair to interfere, as it might prejudice the case against the prisoner at the bar; but when it is con cluded we shall then consider what course should be taken as regards Mr. Pater. Mr. Pater said there ought to be a fresh juryman in the place of the foreman who had acted so improperly. Mr, Payne—You are only repeating your former insults. Mr, Pater—And I shall continue to do so to the end of time. Things have arrived at such a pitch that lam bound to resent, and as a great number of the remarks which have fallen from the bench have been applied to me, 1 feel it my duty to speak my mind boldly, and I will always do so, no matter what the result may be. I am entrusted with an important duty, and although the duty of the jury may be more important than mine, yet still mine is an important duty, for you are sworn to return a true and just verdict, and according to the evidence. I have to do a duty accord ing to my own conscience and the interest of the client com mitted to my care, and I thank God I have discharged that duty to the best of my ability, and which I shall continue to do as long as I have the honour to wear a wig and gown, Notwithstanding the interruption I have received from the toreman of the jury,let us now approach the fact cf the case, and see how the evidence points to a conclusion to warrant you in returning a verdict of guilty. My learned friend Mr, Wood, in opening the case, asked you to return a verdict in favour of the Queen, but the Queen cared very little what result they arrived at, and I do not know why the name of the Queen was introduced, unless it was to give extra weight to a case that it did not possess. He then went over the evidence, and called upon the jury to acquit the prisoner. Mr. Payne summed up the evidence, and the Jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended him to mercy. The prisoner made a long statement that he had been driven to the commission of the offence through poverty. Mr. Payne sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for eight months. The Assistant• Judge then came and took his seat on the bench. Mr. Payne said—There is a matter connected with this case to which I have felt it to be my duty to draw the at • tention of the Assistant-Judge and the magistrates. Mr. Pater made use of some observations towards the foreman of the jury of a personal character. Those obserlitions were--" I thank God that there is more than one juryman to determine whether the prisoner stole the property with which he is charged ; for if there was only one, and that one the foreman, from what has transpired to-day there is no doubt what the result would be." The foreman was in that position ; but although he wished some other person to take his place, his brother jurymen considered that to be un necessary, and he remained. These personal observations were highly unjustifiable on the part of Mr. Pater, and I have thought it right to bring them under the notice of the Assistant-Judge. I, therefore, wish the opinion at the learned Assistant-Judge as to what course he would recom mend should be taken. The Assistant-Judge—Such things as these are most painful, and tend greatly to embarrass the administration of justice. I trust that Mr. Pater will withdraw the observa tions, Mr. Pater—Let me first inform your lordship of a fact that has not been brought to your knowledge, for you were not present when this interruption occurred. The foreman on the previous day interfered in the same unjustifiable manner, and a learned friend of mine took the first oppor tunity of challenging him, and he was removed front the jury box. I can form no opinion as to his reason for doing so, unless it arises from an inability to control bis own tem per. I conscientiously stated my opinion, that if there had been but one juryman to decide the case an adverse verdict would certainly be returned, and when he interfered by making observations, such conduct was unchecked by Mr. Payne, The foreman said he knew the object of such in terruptions by counsel, and after the observations which fell from the Bench, I do not feel warranted in withdraw ing the observations, and adoptin3 the course suggested by the Assistant-Judge. The Assistant-Judge—This is a gross dereliction of duty, for the use of such language is perfectly unwarrantable. I should recommend Mr. Payne to treat these observations from Mr. Pater as a contempt of court, and unless they are withdrawn I should recommend that a fine of £2O be in flicted on him, and returned to the Court of Exchequer, and the Barons of the Exchequer will determine whether the privilege of counsel is to bo abused in that way. He hoped it would act as an example, not much needed, be cause such conduct was confined to a very few individuals. Mr. Pater—l have acted conscientiously, and I decline to withdraw the observations. Mr. Warton—l wish to say a word. I confirm Mr. Pater in what he has said. The foreman was challenged by me for improper conduct the day before. The Assistant-Judge—To challenge a juryman is the right of counsel, but it was a very different thing to abuse him. Mr. Payne—l saw nothing in the conduct of the foreman to justify the observations made on him. Mr. Pater—l wish to make a few observations. Mr. Payne—l must decline to hear you, unless you with draw the observations. D 3 you do se ? Mr> Pater—Certainly not. Mr. Payne—Then I fine you £2O. Mr. Pater—l can now say that the opinion I have formed of you is concurred in by every member of the bar. Mr. Abram—l do not concur in it. Mr. 'Wood—Nor I. Mr. Pater—You (Mr. Wood) prosecuted. The matter shall not rest here. I shall bring the subject under the notice of Sir George Grey, and very probably your removal from the bench will be the result. The Murder in Marylebone. At the Marylebone Police Court yesterday, Arthur John Devine, aged 21, of no settled place of abode or occupation, was brought up, charged on remand wi.h murdering Joseph Duck, aged 62, in Little Chesterfield-street, on the }tight of the 10th instant. It will be recollected that the deceased, who had amassed a little property to retire upon, was picked up in Little Ches terfield-street in an insensible state, and bleeding profusely the D division. T wo sovere i g ns that were shortly before from wounds on hi s h ea d, b y P o lice.constable Crowley, of seen in his pos sess i on were no t in his pocket. His watch fob was cut aw ay , an d hi s wa t c h, chain, and seal gone. His neckerchief and pocket-handkerchief were also missed, The evidence gone into on the former Occasion having been read over, the following testimony was adduced : James Burgess, potnian, Marquis of Granby, Great Marylebone• street, said—l saw prisoner on the night of had a piece of wood or I replied I would l oo k. backed V ettoc e k d o n ff r e ao s me d h a yaH chair rp 3 fpo l e a rr r , a, c ahhna9dm. asked ke ll er dehjneadsil te the tap-room a lit t l e and perhaps I c ou ld after nine, wh en h e wen t away an d returned after I came and on my r e t urn h s i a ra id h t a h v e e re on w e e . re s w vo as br c o a k l e le n d o a h w ai a r y s : let him prisoner had gone, and I m i s sed one of the legs of the chair. The iron bar used for a poker was lost on the samo night. I missed it after the prisoner went away the first time. Thomas Jay, deputy lodging-house -keeper, 5, Circus street, carpenter—Early on Fl iday morning, about half past one, prisoner appliet for a lodging. The beds were all full, and so he was not admitted. I saw him next day in the kitchen. He was free with money, and paid for beer on Saturday evening. Some one said, "You are pretty well up for money," and he said he had received 30s. from a laundress either in Woodstock-street or mews. James B carman, lodging at 5, Circus street—On Friday morning I got 111) at a quarter -past four, and I let prisoner in at five o'clock He told me that he had picked up a watch, chain, and ssal in Regent-street, but he could not tell whether they wire worth anything; if they were he would pay for a few tights' lodgings in advance. James Elmslie—l liv ) at Circus-street. I got up at 20 minutes after 5, and I found prisoner in the kitchen. H e said to a man we call "Coachman" that he bad found a chain and seal and a si,k handkerchief in Regent-street. The seal now produced looks like it. He was free with his money, and paid for stems for dinner for other people. H e was throwing half•crewris about the kitchen, I saw him with several shilling I. I suppose he must have spent a sovereign or 255. on the Sunday and Monday. George Hine, carter, lodging in Circus-street—Prisoner came to my bed at half-past six in the morning. He awoke me, and said, "George, I want you to fetch me some break fast." As I came down he put a sovereign into my hand. I fetched broad, tea, sugar, and meat. I changed the so vereign in the Red Lion, Edgware-road, and had some brandy. I brought it to the prisoner. When I got back he said, "You can keep half a' Jane' (half a sovereign)." I gave him the change in silver On Friday morning he gave me a handkerchief, and said if I did not pawn he would. I replied, " You may as well give it to me, as it is not worth much. He did give it, and a man named Elms lie pawned it. Afterwards he gave me a watch-chain and seal, and I took them to Woolwich. Before I went there I picked up with a man in Chapel-street, Edgware road, and he sold the seal for a shilling, which be gave to me. When I brought back the watch and chain on Saturday afternoon from Woolwich I saw the prisoner in Circus-street. I gave him the watch and chain, and he went to the back place and returned with the cases broken up and the works out. On the Sunday some one was reading about the murder, and the prisoner said, " What rogues they must be !" Inspector Thomas Edward Hindes—" On the 15th I went with Sergeant White to Circus-street, where I apprehended the prisoner. On the 16th I received a duplicate from the witness Hine for the handkerchief ; the seal from 67, Church-street, Woolwich ; and the pair of boots belonging to the prisoner I received from a man named Taylor. There is a spot, apparently of blood, on one of the boots. Sergeant White, 16 D—On the 11th inst. I received this iron bar (poker) from Mrs. Adams, at Marylebone station, On examining it I found eight or nine greyish hairs at the end. There are three or four there now. Mary Adams, living at 6, Little Chesterfield-street—A little boy, named Dingle, gave me this iron bar on Friday afternoon, and I took it to the station. Moses Charles Dingle, 7, Paddington-street, picked up the bar in a puddle of water, in Little Chesterfield-street, at about four feet from where deceased was found. It was close by some blood. Mrs. Adams recalled—l knew Mr. Duck. He lived at No. 2. He had a chain with one seal hanging to it. It had a red stone with letters deeply cut in. The portion of the seal now produced is the same. William Francis Fuller, M.R.C.S., house-surgeon to the Marylebone Infirmary—On Friday morning week, the 11th March, at an early hour, the man Duck was brought in partially insensible. I found he had three transverse cuts on the back of the head. They were not done by a very sharp instrunaent. He died at six o'clock on Friday even ing. The injuries, I imagine, must have been done by an instrument like a hatchet or a hammer. I don't think the iron produced could have caused the injuries. Cecil Henning, assistant to Dr. Clarke, divisional surgeon D division—l saw deceased on the morning of the 11th. I found him with three cuts, recently done, on the back of the head, and each cut laid the head bare. I should think the poker now produced might have caused the wounds. James Farris—l keep a laundry in Woodstock-mews, and the only one of that trade in the mews. I have not employed or paid the prisoner any money within the last twelve months. This being the whole of the evidence, Mr. Yardley said—Prisoner, you are charged with the wilful murder of Joseph Duck—you have heard the evi dence given against you; you can say anything you may think proper in your defence, but I must tell you that what ever you do say will be taken down in writing, and may be given in evidence against you at your trial. Prisoner—l say I never trusted Hine with any money of mine, because I had a bad character of him. The people in the kitchen said he (Hine) stole a pair of boots in Molyneux street from a young chap, and that is the reason he went to Circus-street to lodge. Hine said he was not going to get nailed by Teddy White (the sergeant), because ho said he heard that Teddy was after him, and that was the reason he kept away from there. That is all I want to say. Mr. Yardley—You are committed for trial. Prisoner then burst out crying, and buried his face in his pocket-handkerchief, and so was led out to the cells by Anster, the gaoler. A dense crowd had assembled to see the prisoner go away in the van to Newgate. THE BRADFIELD RESERVOIR, -,,_ (Front the Mechanics' Magazine.) The first essential to the construction of a good embank- 1 ment is excellence of material, Unfortunately the Loxley valley, whatever its other advantage, in this respect was lamentably deficient ; clay for puddling was scarce and bad. The hills at either side consist for the most part of a loose blue shale, which no care can render impervious to moisture, or lapse of time fairly consolidate. Nevertheless, nothing else was to be had, and, such as it was, it must be used, The works were undertaken by Messrs. Craven Brothers. under terms of which we as yet know nothing, The engi neering difficulties involved were very moderate. 'No springs were encountered, no slips of any magnitude took place. Dykes have been made before now of poorer stuff than shale. Sand, loose earth, even shingle, has served a good purpose in the time of need, and as the dam was not called on to sustain any pressure due to water, until its constructors thought fit, the practical details of its formation involved none of those troubles met with in the building of sea walls, or the rearing up, tide by tide, of embankments intended to rescue land from the sea. Even after its completion, when in actual use, it was exempt from the action of waves, as nothing worthy the name could be formed on a narrow land-locked pond of a few score acres. Like all similiar structures, it consisted of a central wall of clay puddle, supported on either side by retaining banks, in the present case formed of the shale or earth dug from the bottom and sides of the valley. l n length the embankment extended about 400 yards, with a height of nearly 9Dft. The top, we are told, was extremely narrow. The width of the base is variously stated. The Times, with its usual disre gard for scientific accuracy, sets it down at but 40ft. From more reliable resources we are inclined to estimate it at about 270 ft. or 300 ft. Inasmuch as the embankment was not destroyed frem below, was not "blown up," in fact, this is a matter of minor consequence--at present, at least. The Sheffield Waterworks Company has, it appears, of late found full employment for its capital, and from this reason no doubt economy became a matter of paramount impor tance. Now, had the embankment been formed of much better material than loose shale, its proper width at the bottom should have been, at the very least 4001 t. As it was, the course to be pursued was clear. The shale was in itself wholly unreliable. It only remained to make the puddle-wall strong and thick, carefully rammed and solidly beaten together foot by foot, and inch by inch ; using the shale merely as a retaining wall, in quantity on the outside, and as a protecting covering to prevent attrition within. We fail to discover that any such emirs() was pursued. Most of the evidence goes to show that the puddle-wall was inferior, both in workmanship and material, while the embankment when finished wanted breadth of base—in a word, it was too weak. The inner side was protected by a thin pavement, of small sandstone blocks laid without cement. We pre sume the slopes were concave on both sides, as they usu ally are in such structures. Now the formation of a wound, for such we may call it, 1,200 feet long, 90 feet high, and 400 feet broad at the base, is a rather expensive undertak ing, and we have every reason to believe that the deposit of shale was curtailed as much as possible. The pressure on the embankment when the reservoir was full must have equalled more than the seventh part of the weight of the dam. Nothing retained it in its place and prevented it from sliding down the valley save the friction—due to its weight on the surface which supported it. We cannot estimate the co-efficient of this friction at mo.e than half the insistent weight, and we therefore find that the margin of safety al lowed, even while the soil of which the dam was composed remained free, or nearly free, from moisture, was run very fine indeed. It is the fashion unhappily just now to leave little margin of safety in any of our structures, and it would not be difficult to find embankments held to be good, re garded as models, and thought worthy of every confidence, where the lino of safety is quite as nearly approached, when ever the reservoirs of which they form a part are full, as it was in the Bradfield bank. When we consider the Bradfield dam was afflicted with congenital weakness, that it was a new structure, not firmly consolidated—if shale ever can consoli date—it is not difficult to comprehend how the accident, so called, occurred. The thickness of the bank at a distance of some 12 or 15 feat from the top, must have been com paratively insignificant. The reservoir had never been full before. However carefully the first part of the work had been executed, it was natural enough that this, the upper portion, exposed to a comparatively trifling strain, would receive less attention, less labour. As a result of all these circumstances, tending to the one point, water found its way into the very heart and substance of the dam ; there, acting as it always does in such cases, it dissolved the sole bond which held the upper sections of the dam to those which were lower. It reduced the co•efyicient of friction to such an extent that the upper portion of the embank ment seems to have been pushed fairly off the lower por tions on which it rested, to which it never adhered. The water found a vent at once through a wide chasm, and quickly wreaked its fury on the external slope of the em bankment, down which it poured, tearing it up as though it had been so much running sand. The total destruction of a vast section of the embankment followed in a moment, and then commenced those horrors which England will not soon forget. It has been urged in defence of those who are responsible, that the event must be attributed to the pre sence of an unusual quantity of water in the reservoir ; to the recent formation, and almost incomplete state of the embankment ; and to the inclemency of the weather. The reply to all these arguments is clear. if the embankment was not intended to sustain the strain, why was it piled up to a height of 90 feet ? If it was not in a fit state to receive the pressure due to this immense depth of water, why was the water suffered to accumulate ? We are told that up to the last the engineer in charge was reluc tant to draw off the water, as by doing so he ran the risk of being unable to fill the reservoir again during the spring. Every cubic foot stored up represented so much pecuniary value, which he was unwilling to waste. We trust that this assertion is unfounded. At the eleventh hour we find him endeavouring to blow up part of the embankment with gunpowder. Alas I all power in the matter hid ,by that time been taken out of the hands of man. A Government inspector has been Sent down to investigate every particular connected with the construction of the dam. How it occurs that the last gentleman who found his way to Bradfield, Capt. Tyler, on a somewhat s milar errand, passed the work, we know not, unless it is that so little information is to be got from looking at the outside of any work con structed of earth. The efficacy of such inspections is more than doubtful, and we feel much inclined to regard them as a delusion and a snare. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.---It is a wonderful thing that a Govern ment which has been directed on the whole with such wisdom as that of that of the Emperor of the French, which has elevated the name of France abroad, which has been the victor in two wars, which has checked the progress of the great enemy of Western Europe, and conferred national indepen dence and unity on one of the most gifted of races, which has, moreover, given internal security to its country and developed the wealth and industry of France beyond all parallel of former reigns, should bo so afflicted with the vices which beset official na- ture that it often subjects itself to affronts it does not deserve. Again the electors of Paris have pro nounced by immense majorities for candidates whose chief recommendation is that they are opposed to the system on which France is governed. The elections of a few months since are still fresh in the memory of the public, and now, on the occasion of two vacan cies for the first and fifth districts of Paris respec tively, M. C4rnot receives 9,938 votes against 3,378 for M. Pinard, and M. Gamier Pages receives 11,721 _ _ against 4,641 for M. F. Levi, one of the Paris Moires put forward by the Government expressly to oppose him. 'I he event will have perhaps little direct effect, as the vast majority of the French population is stanch for the Emperor; and whether the little band of Liberals in the Legislative Body counts two votes more er Jess can make little difference as to the fate of any measure. But still it is important. In spite of the great political revolution which 1851 brought with it Paris is still almost equivalent to France. Though the policy of the Empire has been to make the provincial feel himself as good as the metropolitan, though the classes which are powerful in the provinces, such as the clergy, the well-to-do industrialists, and the landowners large and small, have been especially courted by the statesmen who now govern France, yet the traditions of 70 years, and, indeed, we may say of a century or two, are not to be obliterated in a short time. Though the orators and men of letters who congregate in the capital are not what they were in power, and are even sneered at by the men of wine and silk and iron who have grown rich in the provinces ; though the Paris mob has found its master in an army which would be ready in a moment to crash any repetition of 1818 or 1830, yet Paris elections are events which cannot fail to have a moral importance. Tee provin cials know that whether the Parisians be more en tightened than themselves or not they are, at any rate, more independent of control and judge more com pletely for themselves. The elector is lost in a crowd, and becomes therefore less exposed to the influences of administrative personages. For the shopkeeper or artisan of Paris the Prefect of the Seine is no terrible potentate, and a Maire's frown is not a withering influence commercially or socially. Wise or foolish, mad theorist or shrewd man of the world, the Pari sian votes according to his opinions. The ballot box, which affords little protection in rural districts, is scarcely thought of in the capital as a safeguard ; for, except a few timid fathers of families who do not care to be "mal vu," everybody now says how he shall vote and how he has voted. Consequently Paris may be held to represent free public opinion in France, and though provincials may have a vague idea that people in Paris are never con tented and oppose every Government as a diversion to their monotony, yet, when the defeats come one after the other, a wise ruler will do well not to dis regard them. POST.—The stewards of the Jockey Club have won the Cambridge Handicap, where we have been overweighted with the heavy technicalities of the law. They win one shilling damages and prove their right to exclude whom they please from New market Heath, We thought it our duty to defend " Argus" and the cause of the Press at any cost, and we have fulfilled that duty. We did not choose to allow, till tne law should so pronounce, that it was ih the power of the Jockey Club to inflict upon in dependent writers the punishment awarded to blacklegs and rascally jockeys. It is now demon strated chat such a power apparently lies in the hands of an irresponsible tribunal. It is a vain and empty supposition, for the Jockey Club will find that its attempts to control the Press are futile and childish. We cm send a hundred gentlemen to write under the name of " Argus" instead of Mr. Willes; and can laugh at any attempt to exclude the multiplicity of reporters. We only own ourselves amenable to the verdict of our readers and the con sequences of the law of libel. It was competent to the Stewards of the Jockey Club to have indicted us for whatever false report or malicious writing we had been guilty of. They did not attempt to do this. We will not now recall the circumstances of a trial before the Stewards of the Jockey Club, in which "Argus" contended that the judges were biassed, and that the verdict was unfair. We accepted at the time the responsibility of that statement, and in our leading columns we reiterated and proved it. If by so doing we were in error, and were inflicting injustice, the Jockey Club might have prosecuted and punished the Morning Post. But we were quite right, and the course of events proved that we were right. The gentlemen implicated were acquitted by the verdict of society of the blame which the Stewards sought to attach to them, and the dis honour oo the transaction recoiled on the heads of the unjust judges. Under these circumstances the Stewards, irritated and vexed beyond measure, did not think it beneath them to visit their spite, not on the Morning Post, where they would have found an antagonist of some strength, but upon a reporter, whom they singled out as the object of their un worthy vengeance. They wrote to Mr. Willes to ask if he were the author of the letters signed "Argus." Had he been cunning, and descended to the level of those with whom he had to cope, he would have declined to answer, but he replied, in all good faith, that he was. They rk quired an apology for his expressions, and he gave such explanations as should have satisfied them. Nevertheless, the Stewards chose to inflict on him the ignominy of expulsion from Newmarket Heath. To that expul sion, we declined to submit, and chose to test the power of the Club before we acknowledged it. l'he law has now declared that, as lessees of the Heath, the stewards have the right which they claim, and to that decision we of course defer. The Club have therefore the power to persecute indi vidual writers when they can find out who they are. But they will be clever indeed it again they find our representatives abandoning the anonymous charac ter of the Press, and offering themselves as personal victims to hastiness and ill-temper. The letters of " Argus" will be continued in the Morning Post by Mr. Willes, except from Newmarket, where he is forbidden to appear, and the letters of " Argus " will be written as trustworthily and honestly from Newmarket by other gentlemen who will be de puted to act in his place. This is but a sorry result for the Jockey Club to obtain. It was the Morn ing Post which offended them—the Morning Post with whom they were angry—simply because they were in the wrong ; and against us they are power less. Instead of bringing an action against this Journal—feeling their weakness, and acting only as the weak and pusillanimous would do, they sought to wreak their ill temper upon an indi vidual, and, taking advantage of the open deal ing and good faith of Mr. Willes, they seized the opportunity which the technicalities of the law placed in their power of inflicting upon him a punishment as petty as it is contemptible. It has been entirely the act of the Stewards, and we still believe that a highminded body of gentlemen, guided by English tradition and animated by the love of fair play, would have been incapable of ratifying the conduct of their Stewards had it been submitted to them. The Stewards of the Jockey Club, as the case stands, have inflicted a gross insult upon the English press. We can confidently appeal to the sympathy of our contemporaries and the public. We assert the freedom of public opinion, and deny that we can be controlled, and censured, and punished by the arbitrary dictature of the Stewards of the Jockey Club. Were we to do other wise we should betray our calling. On the condi tions tendered by the Stewards, were they enforced by other authorities, a reporter could never report, a writer could never comment on any public event unless in compliance with the dictation of the occupiers of the place which he happened to enter. We should thus abandon all right to criticise magi strates, theatres, railways, companies, public meet ings, and the whole circle of general deeds and actions. The absurdity i s t oo grea t. Th e manner in weich the press exercises its functions is obvious and well known, and we think we are warranted in saying, both for our Contemporaries and ourselves, that we have not merited the gratuitous outrage which has been inflicted on English journalism in the person of" Argus." [ADVERTISEMENT.] — HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.-- Experience.—This question is often asked by sufferers from tumours, abscesses, and other alarming diseases—. ,‘ What treatment of my malady is the safest and surest r' The unsolicited testimony of thousands points out Hollo way's Ointment and Pills as the most reliable of fall cura tive means. The drugs o f w hi c h th e y ar e compound e d are highly purifying, very strengthening, and altogether unin jurious. The Ointment, when applied to the affected part, counteracts all bad humours which are feeding the disease an d poisoning the system. The Pills purify the entire frame. Many malignant diseases which begin in a mild and curable form have been stopped in their suspicions course by these invaluable rernedies,und many cancers nave auceumbecl to them, CONSPIRACY TO MURDER. 41› - TIPPERARY ASSIZES.—MARCH 18. (Before Mr. Ju , irice O'Brien.) THE QUEEN V. HAYES. Philip Hayes was innicted for firing at J. Gore Jones, E-q., R.NI., with intent to murder him. Mr. Gore Jones, R.M., was examined, and gave a detailed account of his having been fired at by two men, of whom the prisoner was one, when riding in the neighbourhood of Borrisoleigb, on the 2d day of March, 1863. The confession of the prisoner, made voluntarily before Mr. Fleming, R.M., on the 23d day of March last, was put in evidence by the Crown. It was substantially as follows :—A man named Patrick Grady came to my house about five weeks ago. He pulled a orie pound note out of his pocket and gave it to me saying, " Come, now, you thief ! this is your time to h3ld sound." " What is this about Paddy ?" says I. " Whisht" says he. This is nothing to what we will get. Come down to my house in the morning early, and don't let your wife or any one know but it's working you will be. Accordingly, I got up about 5 o'clock on Saturday (the next morning), and went to his house. Grady showed me two pistols he had brought with him. He said, " Come now, you thief ! we wi,l get plenty of money from Michael Gorman to take us to America, or any place we wish." " For what ?" says I, He hesitated, and said, "There is a lad going to play some tricks on Michael Gorman. It is Trant, of Doves. If we settle him we will get plenty of money from Michael Gorman." We then went into a grove belonging to Mr. Rian, of Inch. He pulled out a gun and loaded it with powder and slugs, and put a cap on it. He then gave it to me, and we went to the roadside to where he told me Mr. Trant would be passing. We hid ourselves under a break of briars. I said, " Paddy, I don't know Mr. Trant." He said, "I know the lad well." We waited till 12 o'clock. We then went away. Paddy Grady hid the gun. The confession then went on to detail the firing at Mr. Jones, and that a man named Woodlock gave him (the prisoner) £5 to do so, I, said the prisoner in his confession, said—" What spite do you owe against Jones ?" "Oh !" said Woodloek, "it is not me but another man in Thurles." In the morning I went to his (Woodlock's) house. He called me into a little parlour he has. He said, " Come out, Phil, over the Pollock, to fowl; there is a good deal of plover about to-day." I went with him. He carried the gun. We crossed a river, and got out, until we went up to the ditch where Paddy Grady was waiting for us. Woodlock pulled some caps out of his pocket. Grady put one on the pistol. Woodlock said, " As soon as you do the job place the gun down here in the ditch, and I will come for it es soon as I get en opportunity." He then went away. Grady and I parted. He went out across the ditch. We met at the ditch of the road. We concealed ourselves under the briars that were growing over the ditch till we saw Mr. Jones riding up on horseback. " Come here, you thief," says Grady, "don't be daunted, for you know we will get plenty of money to send us any place we like." Accordingly I put the gun throng's the briars. Gore Jones was about five or six yards away from ma when I covered him and fired. Grady was at the other Bide of me. He had him covered with a pistol. When I fired the horse leaped and jumped away. Grady said, " Upon my oath we missed him !" " btand," said he," till I put on another cap." Ho put his hand in his pocket and could not find any. He said he lost them. Jones turned round his horse and looked at us over the ditch. I pulled my hat over my face. He said, " Well, my lads, I know you, and will make you suffer." We then ran away along the ditch as fast as we could. I separated from Paddy Grady, and do not know where be went. I went to the place where Woodlock desired us to put the gun, and placed it there. I then ran home as quick as I could, and took cff my shoes. The confession then went on to state that prisoner had attended the fair of Thurles on the following Tuesday, and sold some " bonneens ;" that on Wed nesday night he left his house to go to America, and was arrested in Templemore. Mr. Curtis addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and then proceeded to call witnesses for the defence, The Jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence deferred. COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS—TUESDAY. The show of grain has been good this week. The demand fer wheat still continues very limited, but:there is no altera tion from the values of last Tuesday. Barley remains the same as last week. Oats and other articles unchanged. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. There was a small attendance both of town and conntrf dealers at market to-day, and little disposition to do busi ness was evinced. Wheat met with a moderate demand► but nominally unchanged in value. Flour difficult to sell, and 6d per sack and barrel tower on the week. Oats met dull sale, at late quotations. Barley, beans, and peas wer ° unaltered. There was an easier business doing in Indiaa corn. Oatmeal dull. MARKET HARBOROUGH—TuEsDAY. White wheat, 40s to 458; red, 31s to 40s per 36 stone• Malting barley at 33s to 36s per qr. ;" grinding, 298 to 315 per 30 st, Oats, old, 23s to 275; new, 20s to 22s per 30 at. ; beans, 32s to 40s per qr. BRISTOL-TUESDAY. Our market today was fairly attended, and the shOW of grain was about the average. Sales took place at about last week's rates. SHEFFIELD—TutsDA Y. There was a thin attendance of millers to-day, and the business done was very small. The best qualities of whits wheat made late rates, but red wheat was 64 per load lower. Some inquiry was made for seed oats, but prices did not materially change. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...lss Od to 18s Gd White 19 9 ...18s Od to 20 8 O a New red ..158 6d to 168 6d New white ~ 79 ...17s Od to 18 8 O d ), Beans ... los Gd to 17s O d Peas, per qr 4os Od to 44s Od Orindino• b barley, per qr 298 Od to 30s 04 Maltingditto, „ 32s Od to 358 Od Oats l9s Od to 24s Od 7/ Flour, Is 4d to la 8d per 14 lb. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. April 1.9. via Marseilles . .. April l 2 Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet .. April 5. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Mar. 3 0 . China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. April 3. via Marseilles ...Mar. 25 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Mar. 2 8 . India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton April 3 via Marseilles Mar. 14 India (Bombay), via Southampton Mar. 25 , via Marseilles Mar. 2 2 .• Portugal.... April 5. Nlalta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 28.. via Marseilles Mar. 22 1 Newfoundland .. April 15. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet .... Mar.. 24, ' by U.S. packet by Canadian packet Mar. -' W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneride April 10 , Bahamas, via New York April 7. Mexico All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I Mar. 30' California. and British Columbia. Persons who have been in the habit of paying weekly to borrowers of Sewing Machines will do well to apply at owe and become members of Messrs. Watts and Co.'s Sewing Machine Clubs. By so doing they will not only se‘ve the money they now foolishly throw away, but at the same tithe secure to themselves the possession of one of the. best an l most celebrated sewing machines in the world. Every lam formation given on application; or by letter addressed, with a stamped envelope, to Messrs. Watts and Co., 12, 'Beaufor t. buildings, Strand, London, W.C., where meat Ts are en' -tolled daily between 10 and 4 ; Saturdays, 10 anvlA, Births. NZWMAN.—On the 221 inst., at Beira , At-hill, Lee, til l wife of Arthur S. New man , Eeq., of t w i ns , son 0 " daughter. PAGE.—On the 21st inst., at 39, P or i ,land- the place, W., wile of Robert Harry Pag e , E sq., of Beckenham-placer Kent, of a son. vd SCOTT.—On the 20th inst., at 33, L e i nster-gar d ensi —• few park, the wife of Sir Sibb a ld David Scott, Bart.; ° daughter. STUART.—On the 10th inst. Stuart, a a son. ; OA Woolwich, Mrs. Mar,iages. ATICINSON-Smirm-Or, th e 17th inst , at St. Tu°— 6'i l' Stamford-hill, Mr. Pleory Atkinson , of Love-lan e t dermanbury, to Ma' f y, the youngest daughter of G e° Smith, Esq., of ore-street. Fox—OnmE.—Ora the 19th inst , at St. John's, TTAto stead, Howard Fox, Esq., of Falmouth, to Blanche, darpht er of Charles Ottue Eaq 8 1 -1 A V road, I tegent. , s-park. , Deaths.. the 20th inst,, at H a l eswor th, Sufralict tbf Rev, Lombe Atthill. 8A,74-Z,—On the 22(1 inst., Jolva Batt, Esq, of S, Bighber grove, and 39, Old Broad- , street, aged 61. iSb (30NDER —On the 20th inst., at North Bri - /ton, - °5 Condor, Esq., aged 42. CHAMBERS.-011 the 19th inst, Richard Shalt° ChaP . of 59, Gower-street, aged 73. HOWARD.—On the 21st i ns t., at 13111CO•grO ye, Totten,ra" Luke Howard, Esq,, F.R,S., o f Ae.oya:th Villa, - shire, aged 92. o f VI KILRY.—On the 21st inst., Thorn , as E s q . ' Fenchurch-stre e t, c ity, ad Not, ag ed 7 6 . 1 0 WATSON,—On the 19th inst., iy .r. Thomas W ateo73 ' of Milk-street, Cheepside, aglil 74. JAS London : Primed and Prnsh , of No. 112, Strand, Prin. 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